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Leaked US cable says China has 'no morals' in AfricaBeijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2010 The United States thinks China is a "pernicious economic competitor with no morals" whose booming investments in Africa are propping up unsavoury regimes, according to a leaked diplomatic cable. The frank assessment by the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Johnnie Carson, was among the latest revelations in thousands of documents released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks. "China is a very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals. China is not in Africa fo ... read more |
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  Put deserts on climate agenda, UN official says As negotiators near a deal on preserving forests as a way to fight climate change, a top advocate for deserts says that the planet's driest lands should also play a role. ... more | .. |
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  Eutrophication Makes Toxic Cyanobacteria More Toxic Continued eutrophication of the Baltic Sea, combined with an ever thinner ozone layer, is favouring the toxic cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, ... more | .. |
  Agrilife Researchers Find Way To Cut Food-Irradiation Levels By Half A team of Texas AgriLife Research engineers has developed a way to cut by as much as half the amount of irradiation needed to kill 99.999 percent of salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens on fresh ... more | .. |
 Fledgling Ecosystem Lets Scientists Observe How Soil, Flora And Fauna Develop How do ecosystems develop? No one really knows, yet. There is however one project, unique in the world, seeking to answer this question. In a former open-pit coal mining area in Brandenburg, Germany ... more | .. |
  Bacteria Seek To Topple The Egg As Top Flu Vaccine Tool Only the fragile chicken egg stands between Americans and a flu pandemic that would claim tens of thousands more lives than are usually lost to the flu each year. Vaccine production hinges on ... more |
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 Spain offered to host Africom: WikiLeaks The Spanish government offered to host the US military command for Africa (Africom) in southern Spain, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. ... more | .. |
  Scientists re-discover Africa's 'terrible hairy fly' A group of scientists has rediscovered the world's rarest and strangest fly in a cave in Kenya, collecting the first "terrible hairy fly" specimen since 1948, a statement said Wednesday. ... more |
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  Nobel Peace ceremony in absentia -- the Ossietzky precedent This year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, in honour of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, will mark only the second time in the prize's history that neither the laureate nor a representative will be able to come accept the award. ... more | .. |
 Kenya PM demands Gbagbo step down in I.Coast Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga demanded Wednesday that Laurent Gbagbo accept defeat in Ivory Coast's election and urged the world to hold him responsible for the "chaos" since the vote. ... more | .. |
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China paper sees Western 'plot' in Nobel Peace Prize A Chinese state newspaper with ties to the Communist Party on Thursday suggested a Western "plot" against Beijing, saying the Nobel Peace Prize was being used to take aim at Chinese ideology. ... more |
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 Australia boosts support for Indonesian forest scheme Australia on Thursday doubled its funding for Indonesia's efforts to slash its greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, and praised the country's "strong leadership" on climate change. ... more | .. |
  Report blames blaze on neglect of fire services A government watchdog report released Wednesday after Israel's worst-ever fire said the fire services suffered from systematic neglect and laid much of the blame on Interior Minister Eli Yishai. ... more | .. |
 Sudan heads toward breakup Sudan, Africa's largest country, is in the final run-up to a critical referendum on independence for the oil-rich south in January that seems certain to split the war-scarred state. ... more | .. |
 Ethiopia challenges Egypt over Nile water The simmering dispute over the Nile River between Egypt and downstream African states is heating up with Addis Ababa alleging Cairo supports insurgents fighting the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. ... more |
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 Chile prison fire kills 83 inmates Fire swept through a prison in the Chilean capital Wednesday, killing at least 83 inmates and leaving 14 others with critical injuries, after a feud among prisoners. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong lowers bird-flu alert Hong Kong on Wednesday lowered its public health warning on bird flu, less than a month after the densely packed city announced its first human case of the illness since 2003. ... more | .. |
  Freeze hits Paris after heaviest snowfall in decades Icy roads left much of the Paris region paralysed on Thursday after the heaviest snowfall in almost 25 years, with drivers advised not to use their cars unless absolutely necessary. ... more | .. |
China on the offensive over Nobel ahead of award ceremony China Thursday labelled US lawmakers "arrogant" for supporting Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and said most of the world was opposed to the Oslo-based committee's decision to honour the dissident. ... more |
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